Combination-car.



No. 738,202. 7 PATBNTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

G. V. KEEGAN.

COMBINATION GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 22, 1903.

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No. 738,202. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903. U. V. KEEGAN.

COMBINATION GAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1903. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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I I I eAlfopgzys UNITE STATES l 'atented September 8, 1903;

PATENT ()FEICE.

CIIAUNCEY v. KEEGAN, or FORT WADsWoRTH, NEW roan.

COM BiNATION-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,202, dated September 8, 1905.

Application filed June 22, 1903. Serial No. 162683. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHAUNOEY V. KEEGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort lVadsworth, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Combination-Oar, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cars, and is especially designed for use as a grain-car, but is susceptible of employment for hauling stock, lumber, or the like, and has for its objects to produce a device of this character of comparatively simple construction which will be efficient in operation and one in which grain may be discharged from the car directly into sacks or other receptacles.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fullyhereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation of a car embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a detail bottom plan View of the cut-off. Fig. 5 is a detail end elevation. Fig. 6 is a detail plan view of a slight modification.

Referring to the drawings, 1 1 indicate the wheel-trucks, each consisting of the usual upper and lower arch bars and tie-bar sustainin g journal-boxes, in which are journaled axles 2, provided with transporting-wheels 3. The frames of the trucks 1 each sustain, as usual, a bolster a, the ends of which project laterally beyond the side frames of the truck. These parts may all be of the ordinary or any suitable construction and material, as they form no part of my invention.

In accordance my invention I bolt or otherwise secure to the bolsters at a pair of parallel bars 5, the ends of which project a suitable distance beyond the bolsters and are extended upward therefrom at an inclination, as shown in Fig. 1. These bars, which serve to connect the truck-bolsters, are provided each with a plurality of vertically-depending tubes or spouts (3, in each of which is mounted a cut-off valve 7, which normally closes the spout, but which may be moved outward through a horizontal slot formed in the side wall of the spout for opening the latter, for the purpose which will hereinafter appear. Each cut-off 7 is maintained normally closed by a spring 8, disposed upon a guide-rod 9; which extends through a perforation in the wall of the spent and carries at its outer end a curved head ormember 10, the outer face outer end with a suitable handpiece, outward pull upon the rod serving to open the valve and at the same time compress the spring 8, whereby when the rod is released the valve will be automatically closed.

13 indicates the sidewalls, 14 the front end wall,and 15 the rear end wall,of the car-body, which parts are sustained by a frame 16, herein termed the hopper-frame, mounted upon the parallel bars 5 and constituting the baseframe of the car-body. The frame 16 consists of a main longitudinal plate 17 and a plurality of supplemental transverse plates 18, which conjointly form a series of hoppers 19, each having downwardly-inclined walls leading to one of the spouts 6. The main plate is so bent in cross -section that it forms the inner inclined walls of the hoppers 19, which are arranged in pairs transversely of the frame, and

also their outer walls, which are vertically disposed, while the transverse end walls of.

the hoppers are formed by the supplemental plates 18, which latter. at their point of meeting at the top edges of the hoppers are continued upward above the same a short dis tance in vertical parallel relation, as at 20 in Fig. 1, and are finally oppositely bent to form horizontal flanges 21, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described, the vertical meeting portions of the plates being securely bolted or riveted together. The frame 16 is strengthened at its top by a supplemental frame consisting of end bars 22 and longitudinal side bars 23, which are attached to the end bars in any suitable manner, which latter also sustain the ends of the primary beams 24 and supplemental beams 25, which conjointly form the car-floor. The beams 24 are rigidly attached at their opposite ends to the respective end bars 22,while the supplemental beams 25 have their ends journaled for rotation in said bars, the ends of the beams being of cylindrical form and mounted in circular openings formed in the bars, whereby said beams may be rotated for the purpose of discharging grain from the car, as will be more fully hereinafter described. The floorbeams 24 are sustained between their ends by the horizontal flanges 21, to which they are bolted or otherwise secured, while the beams 25, which are flat in cross-section, are provided upon their lower faces at suitable points between their ends with semicircular bearing portions engaging journal blocks 26, also .preferablybolted to the flanges 21, said blocks having in their upper faces semicircular bearing-recesses, in which the lower curved faces of the beams seat.

The rotary floor-beams 25 are turned on their pivots to discharging position each by means of a hand-lever, said levers being disposed in pairs at opposite ends of the car, whereby the beams are operated in pairs. For instance, there are four of the rotary beams, and the levers for operating two of them are disposed at the outer face of end wall 1l,while the levers for manipulating the remaining two are disposed at outer face of the end wall 15. Inasmuch as these respective pairs of levers are alike in construction and operation I will describe but one pair in detail, in which 27 is a lever provided at its inner end with a bifurcated head, which is pivoted to the outer projecting end of one of the beams 25, preferably the outer one, the lever being adapted to swing upon its pivot in ahorizontal plane when the beam is in its normal position. The next adjacent beam 25 has an end projecting beyond the end wall of the car and slotted, as at 28, said beam having also attached to its projecting end an operating-lever 29, which is disposed at right angles to the slot. \Vhen the beams are in normal position, they are locked by swinging the lever 27 into engagement with the slot 28, and when in such position the lever is locked by means of a pin 30, inserted through suitable perforations formed through the beam at right angles to the slot. The pin 30 is attached to the carbody by a chain, and during transportation of the car the lower end of the pin is provided with a suitable seal to prevent its withdrawal, thus preventing fraudulent tampering with the mechanism. lVhen it is desired to discharge the contents of the ear, the pin 30 is withdrawn, the lever 27 swung out of engagement with the slot and actuated for rotating the beam. The lever 29 is then actuated for rotating the companion beam, and the grain which is in this manner permitted to escape through the floor of the car will pass into and fill the underlying bins 19, from which latter it may be withdrawn into suitable sacks or like receptacles by placing the mouth of the sack beneath the spouts 6 and opening the cut-0E valves 7. During such discharging of the grain into sacks the mouth of the latter will be engaged at one side with the teeth 11 of the head or member 10 and drawn firmly into engagement with said teeth by one hand of the operator, while with the other hand the rod 12 will be manipulated for opening the cut-off, as will be readily understood.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a modified arrangement of attaching the j ournal-blocks which sustain the floor-beams 25 between their ends.

In this modified form of the device the blocks are provided with laterally-projecting perforated ears 3], through which the blocks are attached to the beams 24 by means of bolts 2, extending through the latter and into engagement with the ears.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I produce a device of comparatively simple construction which will be efficient in operation and one which I now believe to be the best adapted for the attainment of the ends in view; but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein set forth, inasmuch as minor changes may be made therein withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a floor therefor having rotary members, means for rotating said members, hoppers sustained beneath the floor and terminating each in a discharge-spout, and a movable cut-off normally closing the spent.

2. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a floor therefor having longitudinally-disposed rotary members, means'for rotating said members, means for locking the same in normal position, a plurality of hoppers disposed beneath the floor and each terminating in a discharge-spout, and a movable cut-off for each spout normally closing the same. I

3. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a floor therefor having a plurality of lever-operated rotary members, a plurality of hoppers disposed beneath the floor and each terminating in a discharge-spout, and a movable cut-off for each spout normally closing the same.

4:- In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a floor therefor comprising a plurality of rotary members having their ends proj ected beyond the wall of the car, the projecting end of one of the members being slotted, a lever pivoted to the end of the adjacent member and operable for engagement with the slot to lock the members against rotation, a plurality of hoppers disposed beneath the floor and each terminating in a dischargespout, and a movable cut-off for each spout normally closing the same.

5. I11 a car, the combination with a carbody, of a hopper-frame sustained beneath the same and provided with a plurality of hoppers each terminating in a discharge-spout, a series of alternating fixed and rotary beams sustained by the frame and constituting the car-floor, means for actuating the rotary IIO beams, and a movable cut-oft for each discharge-spout normally closing the same.

6. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a hopper-frame sustained beneath the same and composed of primary and secondary plates forming hoppers, the secondary plates being extended above the hoppers and bent to form horizontal flanges, a plurality of fixed beams carried by the frame and sustained between their ends bysaid flanges, a plurality of rotary beams carried by the frame and alternating with the fixed beams, journal-blocks carried by the flanges beneath the rotary beams for sustainingthe latter between their ends, means for operating the rotary beams to discharge the contents of the car into the underlying hoppers, a dischargespout for each hopper, and a movable cut-off for each spout normally closing the latter.

7. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a hopper disposed beneath the same and terminating in a discharge-spout, a movable cut-off disposed within the spout, means for opening the cut-off, a rod carried by the cut-off and provided with a sack-engaging head, and a spring disposed upon the rod between the head and spout.

8. In a car, the combination with the carbody, of a hopper disposed beneath the same and terminating in a discharge-spout, a movable out-off disposed within the spout, a rod carried by the cut-off and provided with a curved head having its outer face toothed, a spring disposed upon the rod between the head and spout for maintaining the cut-off normally closed, and means for opening the cut-off.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHAUNGEY V. KEEGAN.

\Vitnesses:

J. H. JooHUM, Jr., J. Ross OoLHoUN. 

